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Daniel P. Lent,Japanese Practice Group Leader, gave a half day seminar in Tokyo for The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Japan on January 27, 2016 near the Japanese Patent Office. With walk-ins, there were 40 attendees from Japanese companies and law firms. Dan presented in Japanese and English using a translator. A course book with Dan’s presentations, written in both Japanese and English side-by-side, was pre-printed and given to all attendees. As well, Dan gave a comprehensive presentation on trademarks, “Trademarks 2015 Year in Review,” and one on the ClearConnect ITC case, “Is imported data an article?”

On June 24, 2015, Daniel Lent, Cantor Colburn’s Japanese Practice Group Chair, spoke in Tokyo on recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit regarding patent claim construction. Mr. Lent’s audience was Chief Judge of the Japanese Intellectual Property High Court Ryuichi Shitara and seventy court officials and other attendees, including visiting intellectual property professors from Stanford Law School. The following day, Mr. Lent again presented the same topic to Japan Patent Office Commissioner Hitoshi Ito, Deputy Commissioner Yoshitake Kihara, and other officials at the Japanese Patent Office.

Cantor Colburn partner and Japanese Practice Group Leader, Daniel P. Lent, spoke before the Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO), Hideo Hato, and other present JPO officials at the U.S. Bar/JPO Liaison Council June 20, 2014 Meeting.

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Daniel P. Lent, partner and Chair of Cantor Colburn's Japanese Practice, has been invited by the Intellectual Property Division of the Chubu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, a part of the Japanese government, to give a seminar to 100 patent attorneys, IP professionals, and local enterprises in Nagoya, Japan on November 14, 2017.

On January 26, 2017, Daniel Lent, Cantor Colburn’s Japanese Practice GroupChair, spoke to 50 members of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) in Osaka regarding: Technology Transfer Strategies for Universities, Useful USPTO Pilot Programs, and Recent Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.

On January 24, 2017, Bill Cass, Co-Chair of the Litigation Department, and Daniel Lent, the Japanese Practice Group Chair, spoke to 30 members of the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo regarding: USPTO Post Grant Procedures, Obtaining Attorney Fees Awards in Federal Court for Proceedings Before The USPTO including Reissue, Re-examination, and PTAB Proceedings, Useful USPTO Pilot Programs, the Collaborative Search Pilot Outreach, and Recent rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.

Daniel Lent, partner and chair of the firm's Japanese Practice Group, will attend the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) IP Practice in Japan Pre-Meeting on October 20-21, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

Cantor Colburn partner and Japan Practice Group Leader Daniel P. Lent attended the American Intellectual Property Law Association Mid-Winter meeting, where he gave two presentations to the Japan Practice Committee. The first was on the new USPTO Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Programs (PPH) and the second was on the Patent Law Treaty (PLT).